BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM AT SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY

萨凡纳州立大学（SSU）从1975年到1989年运作了一个少数民族生物医学研究支持（MBRS）项目；该计划为科学技术学院（COST）的几名本科生和教师提供培训。Chetty博士（项目主任）的MBRS-SCORE批准的项目（最近在R-21机制下获得资助）和成本学院在此申请中提交的三个项目将构成拟议的生物医学研究计划的主体。最近，成本通过联邦和州拨款以及来自NIH/ERDA项目的种子资金获得了几项现代化设备，以改善研究基础设施并启动教师研究。MBRS计划寻求资金来振兴和刺激SSU的生物医学研究。该项目的主要目标是进一步改善基础设施，并激励教师在生物医学科学领域进行有竞争力的先进研究。子项目和试点项目的应用范围包括生物化学、环境毒理学和物理化学。SSU的MBRS计划提出了以下活动：1)激励和加强生物医学研究的教师发展；2)通过建立现代生物医学研究核心设施来加强基础设施；3)改善SSU与其他研究密集型机构的合作。参与MBRS计划的教师都是高素质的科学家，他们的研究成果令人印象深刻。如果获得资助，拟议的项目将使SSU加强其生物医学研究基础，并增加教师寻求竞争性研究资金的机会。

Savannah State University (SSU) operated a minority biomedical research support (MBRS) program from 1975-1989; the program provided training for several undergraduate students and faculty in the College of Sciences Technology (COST). Dr. Chetty's (Project Director's) MBRS-SCORE approved project (funded under R-21 mechanism recently) and the three projects submitted in this application by cost faculty will constitute the main body of the proposed biomedical research program. Recently, COST acquired several items of modern equipment through Federal and State grants and seed money from the NIH/ERDA project to improve the research infrastructure and initiate faculty research. The MBRS program seeks funding to revitalize and stimulate biomedical research at SSU. The primary goal of this project is to improve the infrastructure further and motivate the faculty to conduct competitive and advanced research in the biomedical sciences. The cope of the sub-projects and pilot project in the application include biochemistry, environmental toxicology and physical chemistry. The MBRS program at SSU proposes the following activities: 1) to motivate and enhance faculty development in biomedical research, 2) to strengthen the infrastructure by establishing a modern Core Facility by establishing a modern Core Facility for biomedical research, and 3) to improve the collaboration of SSU with other research intensive institutions. The faculty participating in the MBRS program are highly qualified scientists have an impressive record of research publications. If funded, the proposed program will enable SSU to strengthen its biomedical research base and enhance opportunities for the faculty to seek competitive funding for research.